Your weekend cinema guide at a glance
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(NO RATING AVAILABLE ) JOU ROMEO: When the budget for Romeo and Juliet gets cut for upgrades to the cricket clubhouse, the disappointed drama brigade, Yvette and Tyler, devise a plan to save the performance. The plan, however, has unforeseen consequences for the new hero of the show, heartthrob Marko Marais. (Walmer Park, Bridge)
ALSO SHOWING:
(8) ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY: See review on this page.
(6) OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY: Seasonal comedy with Jason Bateman as a newly single tech executive just trying to get through holidays, while Jennifer Aniston strides about in dark suits as his ball-busting chief executive, looking to fire everyone and cancel Christmas. TR (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Hemingways, Baywest)
(NO RATING AVAILABLE) ASSASSIN’S CREED:
Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks his genetic memories, Callum Lynch experiences the adventures of his ancestor, Aguilar, in 15th-century Spain in this sci-fi fantasy starring Michael Fassbender. (Boardwalk, Hemingways, Walmer Park, Bridge, Baywest)
(7) SING: Set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals, Sing stars Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey), a dapper Koala who presides over a once-grand theatre that has fallen on hard times. Buster loves his theatre above all and will do anything to preserve it. (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Hemingways Bridge, Baywest)
(7) INFERNO: Ron Howard returns to direct the latest bestseller in Dan Brown’s billion-dollar Robert Langdon series. This time the famous symbologist (Tom Hanks) is on a trail of clues tied to the great Dante himself. He must race across Europe to foil a deadly global plot. RC (Walmer Park, Hemingways, Baywest)
(8) MOANA: Moana is the distant descendant of Oceanic navigators who feels wanderlust washing over her as she hits her mid-teens. An ecological disaster forces her to set off for far-flung shores. RC (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Hemingways, Bridge, Baywest)
(6) ALMOST CHRISTMAS: Comedy-drama about a beloved patriarch who asks his family for one gift this holiday – just to get along. (Bridge)
(8) FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND
THEM: Eddie Redmayne is writer Newt Scamander on a series of adventures in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards 70 years before Harry Potter read his book at school. (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Bridge, Baywest)
(8) VIR DIE VOËLS: Irma Humpel, a stubborn tomboy, finds herself in a wedding dress at the altar, but isn’t sure how she ended up next to Sampie de Klerk, a rugby player with a heart of gold. (Walmer Park, Bridge)
(Ratings are out of 10) Reviewers: RC – Robbie Collin; TR – Tim Robey